bread and honey

British  

noun

1. slang money

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Etymology

Origin of bread and honey

C20: rhyming slang

Example Sentences

The bakery sells homemade bread and honey cakes made from honey produced by their own bees.

From Seattle Times

All around them are the less awful children of faerie nobles, eating their bread and honey, their cakes and roasted pigeons, their elderflower jam with biscuits and cheese and the fat globes of grapes.

From Literature

She made me sit down on the frayed silk of her eighteenth century settee while she made me a little supper, with bread and honey and coffee, and tiny yellow apples, and a boiled egg.

From Literature

They farmed the land and sold their famous bread and honey.

From Washington Times

"Bring me some bread and honey," she told her ser-vants, "and take word to Maester Luwin that my ban-dages want changing."

From Literature